34 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



pnrchafecl and annexed to the eftate, after the diflblution of that 

 monaftery, by the Whitfelds ; the laft of whom, Matthew Whitfeld, 

 Efq; high fherifFof Northumberland, 1728, fold his antient patri- 

 mony, of Whitfeld, to William Ord, of Fenham, Efq; who hath made 

 great improvements by buildings, enclofures, and planting. 



The feat-houfe is at a fmall diftance from the villa, on a rifing 

 ground, by the ftreams of Weft Allen, the eaftern boundary be- 

 tween this manour, and the manour of Hexhamjkife, Before the 

 call front is a hanging bank of wood, called Monk, remarkable 

 for its beautiful hollies. There is a water-fall from a limeftone- 

 rock, about a mile to the fouth, by a precipice of a prodigious 

 height, nearly perpendicular. 



At Limeftone-Crofs, in the manour of Whitfield t there was formerly 

 a lead-mine. 



On Whitfald-Fell is a chalibeat fpring, called Redmires. 

 About a mile from the Cupilo^ is 



Old Town, fituated partly on an eminence, and partly on a 

 Hope, extending to Eajl Allen ; the houfe next the moor, called 

 Stony-Law, from a little craggy mount, compofed of earth, and 

 large fingle mafTes of coarfe rag-ftone, ftreaked with red and 

 white. There is not the leafl memorial of its being a Roman fla- 

 tion, as fuppofed by Mr. Hor/lcy, either by funeral-flones, altars, 

 infcriptions, coins, or foundations of buildings ; not even a tra- 

 dition from any body on the fpot of its being of Roman original. 

 A quarter of a mile to the eafl of it, upon the moor, is a hillock 



mofmam, de dono Wittlelmi Regis Satits, et inde habuerunt cartam, et tenuerunt a tempore 

 quo non extat memoria. Rot. Cart. 27 Edvardi III. n. 35. 



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